Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene : Freshwater Management in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Settler-Colonialism -- Indigenous Environmental Justice -- The Organisation of the Book -- References -- 2: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Environmental Justice -- EJ: Distributive Justice -- Procedural Justice -- Recognition Justice -- Critique of Recognition -- Beyond Recognition: Indigenous Ontologies and Epistemologies -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: 'The past is always in front of us': Locating Historical Māori Waterscapes at the Centre of Discussions of Current and Future Freshwater Management -- Te Ao Māori (The Māori World) -- Knowledge, Values and Guiding Principles -- Waterscapes of the Waipā -- Waste and Water: The Two Should Never Mix -- Te Ao Māori at the Time of European Contact -- Divergent Understandings of Land: Rights Versus Ownership -- Lead up to Colonisation: 1830s -- Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) -- Historical Context: The Invasion, Raupatu (Confiscation) and Alienation of Whenua 1863-1885 -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Remaking Muddy Blue Spaces: Histories of Human-Wetlands Interactions in the Waipa� River and the Creation of Environmental Injustices -- Settler Imaginative Geographies of the Waipa�: 1850s-1860s -- Post-Invasion Realities: Life on/in the Wetlands -- Māori Engagements with Wetlands and the Settler-Colonial State -- Government Responses -- Te Kawa Wetlands and the Operations of the Kawa Drainage Board -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: A History of the Settler-Colonial Freshwater Impure-Ment: Water Pollution and the Creation of Multiple Environmental Injustices Along the Waipaˉ River -- Water Pollution: An Unacknowledged Problem -- Consequences of Pollution on Health -- Disposal of Waste -- The Resource Management Act and the Limits of Recognition.

Procedural and Recognition Environmental (In)Justices: Continuity and Change -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Legal and Ontological Pluralism: Recognising Rivers as More- Than-Human Entities -- Indigenous Knowledge, Laws, and Worldviews -- Tikanga Māori: The First Legal Order of Aotearoa -- Limited Recognition: Indigenous Legal Traditions with Settler Legal Order -- Decolonising Freshwater Governance: (Mis)Recognition of the Treaty and Tikanga -- Treaty Settlement: Ngā wai o Maniapoto (Waipā River) Act and the Waiwaia Accord -- Treaty Settlement: Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River) -- Complexities of Enacting Legal Pluralism -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Transforming River Governance: The Co-Governance Arrangements in the Waikato and Waipaˉ Rivers -- Water 'Rights' and 'Responsibilities': Water Co-Governance and Justice -- Treaty Settlements and Reconciliation -- Treaty Settlements, Legislation, and Co-Governing and Co-Managing the Waikato and Waipa� Rivers -- Vision and Strategy (V&amp -- S) for the Waikato River/Te Ture Whaimana o te Awa o Waikato -- Waikato River Authority (WRA) -- Assessing the Implementation of Co-Governance Arrangements -- Distributional (In)Justices: Lack of Resources and Capacities -- Procedural and Recognitional (In)Justices: Iwi Involvement in Planning Processes -- Procedural and Recognitional (In)Justices: Critiques of the WRA -- Recognitional (In)Justice: Ngāti Maniapoto Ontologies and Epistemologies -- Conclusion -- References -- 8: Co-Management in Theory and Practice: Co-Managing the Waipaˉ River -- Indigenous Co-Management of Freshwater -- The Resource Management Act: Recognition of Māori Interests -- Giving Effect to Co-Management of the Waipā River -- Principles for Co-Management of the Waipa River -- Operationalising co-Management Arrangements -- River Objectives -- Crown-Iwi Accords -- Regulations.

Iwi Management Plans -- Joint Management Agreements -- Integrated Management Plan -- Not Trickling Down to Flax-Roots-Level -- Co-Management Strengthening Procedural Inclusion and Recognition -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: Decolonising River Restoration: Restoration as Acts of Healing and Expression of Rangatiratanga -- The Emergence of Ecological Restoration as a Field of Study and Practice -- Critiques of Ecological Restoration -- Co-management and Restoration Planning -- Constraints on Restoration Efforts -- Getting the Values Right -- Defining Restoration -- Iwi-Led Restoration Projects: Enacting Kaitiakitanga -- Grief and Hope -- Conclusion -- References -- 10: Rethinking Freshwater Management in the Context of Climate Change: Planning for Different Times, Climates, and Generations -- Indigenous Critiques of Climate Change: Indigenising Intergenerational Climate Justice -- Framing Climate Change in Aotearoa as an Economic and Technical Problem -- Kaitiakitanga and Climate Justice for the Waipa� River -- Tuna and Climate Change -- Conclusion -- References -- 11: Conclusion: Spiralling Forwards, Backwards, and Together to Decolonise Freshwater -- Distributive Justice -- Procedural Justice -- Recognition as Justice -- Interweaving and Layering of Justice: Pluralistic Accounts of IEJ -- Beyond Recognition to Encompass Indigenous Ontologies and Responsibilities -- References -- Correction to: Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene -- Appendix: Table of Interview Participants -- Glossary of Te Reo Ma�ori Terms -- Index.

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